Primetime Emmy Awards

Perhaps few Northbrook area residents were waiting with bated breath when the Emmy Awards nominees were announced on July 16. But in Los Angeles, Northbrook native and Glenbrook North High School alumnus Alexander Rubinow was watching on his computer. And typing. "I slowly started typing the letters of my last name, and it came up. I thought it must have been a mistake, but there it was," said Rubinow, a graduate of GBN's class of 1997, who is an editor with the production company behind "Deadliest Catch" on the Discovery Channel. Rubinow and colleagues Alex Durham and Josh Earl, all of Original Productions, LLC, a FremantleMedia Company for the Discovery...

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